Seeing how the banks are doing these days, I figure some early 1929 music would be just the thing to cheer us up before the real big shitpile, as Atrios the blogger and economist calls it, really hits the fan, probably by about 2009.
So pour yourself a glass of cheap homemade wine, some cheap gin, or your favorite moonshine, click on the Youtube play button, and let’s all have a toast online to the good old days. Because I think that’s where we’re at in historical terms
Music courtesy of Benny Moten and the Kansas City Orchestra.
Posted by Buck Batard at January 10, 2008 06:53 PM
Nice stuff.
The two-step. It would be.
I interviewed an old guy in Newport, R.I. in the '80s who claimed to have played in dance bands at the millionaires' mansions during the Depression. Most Newport mansions have lawns that end in a sea view from a forty-foot cliff. He said the hosts always wanted the two-step, nothing but the two-step, to be played non-stop all evening. Band members would take their breaks one by one while the others kept the sound going. They'd be told, "Don't stop, or we'll have people committing suicide out there."
The editor cut that bit out of my story. Goddammit.
Posted by: Martha Bridegam on January 11, 2008 12:55 AM